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December 8, 2015
Black Chalk in NPR’s Best Books of 2015
Much to my enormous pleasure, ‘Black Chalk’ has been named in NPR’s roundup of the best books of 2015. Click on this link to check out all the other great reads from the yearrecommended byNPR. (And thankyou so much, NPR!)
November 2, 2015
Shooting Gallery
I recently had the immense pleasure of being shotby writer/photographer/book industry whiz Jason Rice. Beloware a fewof the results.
Contact Jason:jasonaustinrice@gmail.com
Admirehim on Instagram:@jasonecir
Or check out this website:www.tomcrownkills.com
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Jason Rice graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography, 1991. He has worked in the South of France teaching photography, and spent three years working in the New York City film and television b...
October 29, 2015
Halloween Read
A PLEASURE AND A CALLING —Phil Hogan
There are manifoldbooks and movies, eagerly awaiting your attention,featuringghosts, ghouls, the supernatural, wizardsor Satanism.And if that’s the sort of novel you’d like to read for Halloween, you’ll unearthno lackof choice. However, what I find most chilling of all in the world is not the monster, the wraith, the demon—the most terrifying creature in all of existenceis the human being.
Phil Hogan’s Mr. Heming, the narrator of his fine novel A PLEASURE...
September 25, 2015
The Millions
I just wrotean article for The Millions about puzzles and novels. More specifically, why puzzles take the credit for my novel-writing. (Obviously NOVELS take a lot of the credit, too, but that’s another piece. That no one has asked me to write.) Click here to read.
September 4, 2015
Spot the Difference
Black Chalk coversforHolland and the US
August 25, 2015
Black Chalk reading guide
Click here for a pdf of the Black Chalk reading guide.
Literary Crossword 3
Click here forthe third and final crossword in the Black Chalk US-release series which I shared over at Bookish. Can you track down the six additional black squares and fill them in?
August 20, 2015
Literary Crossword 2
Here’s the second literary crossword I compiled to tie in with the launch of Black Chalk in the US.
Click on the image or click here for the pdf.
Solve on, solvers.
August 19, 2015
Listen to the review that made Black Chalk a cult hit
Click below for the audio of a Black Chalk review that aired on All Things Considered (NPR). Or you can read the review here.
All Things Considered
Here’s the audio of a Black Chalk review that aired on All Things Considered (NPR).
